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May 25, 2005

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published May 25, 2005. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in May 2005.

Book Review

A Higher Form of Cannibalism?

by Peter Terry

A biographer has a difficult task. If a person has reached a position interesting enough to warrant a biography, then he or she has surely created a persona that has been as calculatingly shaped as any work of fiction. Tampering with... Read More

Book Review

Curious Attractions

by Ralph Culver

These nine engaging, well-turned essays on the writing of fiction reveal this about the author’s working methods in the first few paragraphs: “My habit, when writing about writing, is to proceed by a sort of benign plagiarism. I take... Read More

Book Review

Veritas

“I am having a hideous time here. I feel like Saint Sebastian, stuck full of arrows that people are firing at me,” wrote Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, in 1923 when including black students in freshman dormitories was... Read More